The state of AI in the US is precarious; it looms dark over the economy, as the forecast of 300 million jobs vanishing in 10 years enters...

My youngest daughter is a fine arts major, deeply immersed in her training to become an animator. She is incensed at the intrusion of AI...

Most reasonable people will agree that AI, unregulated (as it currently is), is a very dangerous thing. The question becomes, how is AI...

Among the subtler threats of AI is its potential to diminish what it means to be human. Already, AI is able to present itself in such...

Among those putting forth predictions of the AI future is the Pew Research Center, which published a June 2023 report summarizing the ...

In the hands-on world that’s coming, the biggest and most impactful threats of AI aren’t likely to be cataclysmic; they’re more probably...

The potential for a merger between humanity and AI is so great that its supporters have created a new paradigm for it in the schema of...

One of the great thought experiments of the modern age cuts right to the heart of the AI discourse: can machines ever think like humans?...

Let's begin with a reiteration of a point made prominently in this book’s predecessor: that point being, This time it’s different. That’s...

New technology has taken the world stage. And, as always happens when new technology takes the world stage, a loud chorus has arisen,...

Above, I’ve confessed my anxiety about the future my children and grandchildren are facing, a future fraught with few certainties, other...

It was 1952, and the idea of the modern digital computer was only a few years old – and unknown to the general public. But a newly-minted...

Above, we noted the prediction that all human labor – every job humans currently do – will be taken over by AI in the next 12 decades....

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the potential pitfalls presented by the rapid rise of AI, and justly so: AI is the...

Faced with the possibility of malevolent AI that does us harm – or AI that freely complies when humans use it to harm other humans – what...

One place where AI is very likely to punch, and punch hard, is in the domain of social media, which has done plenty of damage to society...

It is not overstating to say that humanity is at a crossroads. It has been long anticipated, and goes by several names: the Fourth...

The general truth that “anything a human being can do, AI can do better” is in the water supply, and of course that isn’t quite true....

Peter Frase offers a variation on Robert Costanza’s AI outcomes matrix in his book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. It bears a lot of...

What else should we be thinking about, when AI gets analogical? This necessary step toward artificial general intelligence – connecting a...